Three months ago Windows Phone Marketplace had just over 11k apps. That took over 5 months to accumulate. Windows Phone Marketplace has reached 25k apps and rate at which it grows is steadily increasing. Mango it’s on its way and that solidifies the prognosis of app growth sharply increasing.

Windows Phone MIX has compiled a series of 20 best windows phone apps.

Internet based Windows Phone Marketplace is to be online soon.

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Windows Phone has over 25,000 apps already and the rate of growth is slowly increasing. With Nokia signing on Windows Phone 7 platform is picking up steam in both popularity and functionality. Engadget, for those who don’t already know, is a high profile tech blog taking in the hottest news from the world of technical advancement.

Engadget has its own Windows Phone 7 app with which you can get the mobile news as well as HD , as well as podcasts and videos.

Angry Birds has enjoyed an extreme success in iOS or android devices and now it finally made its way to Windows phone 7 devices. Marketplace has Angry Birds available for $2.99. There is a free version offered for people who haven’t yet tried this awesomely addictive game.

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Microsoft plans to have its marketplace internet based. Release of WP marketplace will coincide with mango update sometimes in fall of 2011. This will allow for comfortable and flexible access to all your apps and games for Windows Phone 7 devices.

Todd Brix, Senior Director of Windows Phone Marketplace, explains here below:

The Web version of Marketplace will launch with the new OS later this year and give customers another vehicle for discovering your great apps and games. And as a Windows Phone developer, you get all of the added visibility with no extra work. Just as on the phone, customers will be able to browse the full catalog, view screenshots, read application details and reviews and choose from all of the supported languages for that app. This offers customers another way to more thoroughly and confidently browse your apps from the comfort of their PC’s web browser. With the Web version of Marketplace, we will also have more placement areas in which to provide featured apps with extra visibility and merchandising possibilities.

In addition to easy shopping, Web Marketplace will also enable customers (and you) to promote your apps among friends, family, partners and social networks. Customers will be able to share their favorite apps by embedding a link in emails or articles or make a recommendation through Facebook or Twitter.

Buying and installing apps from the Web Marketplace is fast and easy, just like the phone experience. Purchases are charged against the credit card already linked to the customer’s existing Windows Live ID. If they prefer, the customer can also opt to assign a new credit card. The apps will be automatically downloaded over-the-air to the customer’s Windows Phone, or can be optionally installed later. Web Marketplace will also be able to maintain a customer’s download history to make it easier to reinstall apps (when changing phones, for example). Finally with Parental Controls, parents can determine which apps their kids access based on ratings or keep them from downloading paid apps.

As you can see, we continue to invest in Windows Phone Marketplace to make it more accessible and engaging. We remain equally committed to ensuring a great developer experience based on fair and transparent policies, as well as steadily improving the shopping experience for customers. With the new Web version of Marketplace, we can provide your app with extra visibility, more merchandising possibilities, new end user features that promote app sales and a simplified application purchase experience. By creating more opportunities for customers to get to your great apps, and maybe even discover something they didn’t expect to find, we hope to help you make more money and inspire you to continue creating great apps for Windows Phone. To that end, if you haven’t already, be sure to check out the new beta tools.

Ever since the buzz for the Windows Phone 7, competitions are now up for students and for the rest of the UK. If you are a student, you are lucky since you can participate in both the competitions. On top of that, you can send your entry on both programs so all you got to do is focus on one.

For the student contest, all you need to do is publish an application on the WP7 Marketplace. All you have to do is send in the details via email (ukstucom@microsoft.com) which includes the following details: publisher name, app title and a screen shot. That will be all the details that you need to send in. they will manage the other works. If you win, you will bag the Microsoft LifeCam Show and you can also win t-shirts on each of the 6 rounds. The grand winner will win an HTC 7 Trophy. Of course, it does not stop there. Let us here about the incentives program now.

The next one is open for all. The Microsoft team is in search of something very unique, functional and original. Of those who will win, the prizes are amazing. You can get an Xbox 360, LCD TV screens, home theater packages and so much more. Of course, it also gives a chance to everybody so your 1 entry can serve as a raffle entry to win on the weekly draw of Alienware, Dell or Acer Laptops. These are really a lot of prizes to be won and if you are in the UK, you have an idea for an app and you want to show the world that you can enrich the app world, and then this contest is for you. There is nothing wrong with trying. Who knows? Your app might be the next big thing that will elevate the WP7 to the fame it rightfully deserves.

For more information check out Microsoft UK Student blog